Teaching: I lecture on a number of programmes in UCC and across a range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules. My teaching areas include, broadly, the politics of racism, gender and sexuality, social research methods, cultural policy and popular cultures. More specifically, I teach on the third year of the BSocSc and BA (Early Years and Childhood Studies) programmes (SS3032, SS3015 and SS3401). I co-ordinate two placement modules on the BSocSc degree (SS2024 and SS3030). I contribute to the Masters in Social Policy programme (SS6307) and the Masters in Women's Studies (WS6002). I currently supervise a number of undergraduate research dissertation students from the BSocSc degree, as well as students from the Masters in Voluntary and Community Sector Management and Masters in Women's Studies programmes, and co-supervise a student on the MRes programme (with Mel Mercier, School of Music and Theatre). In 2014,

I completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education and have proceeded to undertake a Postgraduate Diploma in this field.

Research interests: My PhD thesis is entitled '"Beautiful City": Popular music-making, identity and sense of place in Cork city, Ireland'. I am particularly interested music-oriented collaborative projects. In 2012, I contributed to a Lyric FM radio documentary on attitudes towards jazz in Ireland in the 1920s and 1930s, which recently won an award at the New York Festivals World's Best Radio Documentaries. I recently acted as joint curator of the Sir Henrys@UCC Library Exhibition - about Cork's iconic music venue (1977-2003) - with Martin O'Connor (UCC Library) and Stevie G/Stephen Grainger (Cork DJ), which ran from July to September 2014. I am also Co-Ordinator of the Intersections: Youth Work and Music Education research project, which is supported by UCC's Strategic Research Fund, in association with ISS21, and is due for completion in October 2014.

My research interests are diverse, but are generally oriented around issues of creativity, culture and participation. My doctoral thesis focuses on the ways in which the city is produced through music-making activities, using ethnographic research methods to explore music-making as creative labour in Cork. It examines how music-makers articulate their sense of attachment to the city and their involvement in the local music industries, theoretically unpacking discursive representations of cultural identity and locality, and interrogating contemporary conceptualisations of creative entrepreneurialism as a panacea to urban problems and a driver of economic growth.

I am also interested in the relationship between music-making, welfare and social policy, particularly focusing on services which promote community and youth participation and engagement, contextualised within broader discourses of arts participation and cultural funding.

I have written and presented on issues including:arts funding and corporate philanthropymusic policy as social policyrap, youth work and youth activismpopular music and youth culturesmusic-making, youth and intergenerationalitymusic, national identity, 'race' and gendermusic, migration and transcultural capitalmigrant musicians' narratives of identity, place and belongingnessspatio-cultural connections through music enterprises and collectivesethnographic and netnographic methods in popular music research popular music and feminist praxislocality, identity work and music-making activities

I am also interested in broader topics relating to migration, gender, cultural policy, racism, and neoliberalism.

Worlds of Popular Music, Hogan, E. (2014) ‘To give people a reason to stay here’: Collective ethos in music-making and urban creative entrepreneurialism against a politics of austerity. [Oral Presentation], Worlds of Popular Music, University College Cork , 12-SEP-14 - 14-SEP-14. [Details]

Popular Music Symposium, Hogan, E. (2012) 'It's Sick': Questioning the Uses of Hip Hop Pedagogies in Youth Work Practice. [Oral Presentation], Popular Music Symposium, Institute of Popular Music, University of Liverpool , 08-MAR-12 - 09-MAR-12. [Details]

Popular Music in Ireland, Hogan, E. (2011) ‘Home in my Heart': Migrant narratives of home and belonginess in Cork city. [Oral Presentation], Popular Music in Ireland, St. Patrick's College, Dublin , 27-MAY-11 - 27-MAY-11. [Details]

Research Colloquium, University of Liverpool, Hogan, E. (2007) 'Enigmatic territories': popular music, place and identity. [Oral Presentation], Research Colloquium, University of Liverpool, Liverpool , 12-DEC-07 - 12-DEC-07. [Details]

Current modules:SS2024: Fieldwork Placement (B.Soc.Sc.)SS3030: Fieldwork Placement (B.Soc.Sc.)SS3400: Social Policy Analysis II (Gender)SS3015/SS5024: The Politics of Racism (B.Soc.Sc., B.Y.C.W. and H. Dip. in Social Policy)SS3032/SS5016: Social Policy Analysis III (B.Soc.Sc. and H. Dip. in Social Policy)SS6002: Feminist Theory (Masters in Women's Studies)SS6303: Research Methods (Masters in Social Policy)

Previously taught modules:SS1302 Social Policy AnalysisSS2003 The Mixed Economy of Welfare and the Personal Social Services SS2004 Family PolicySS1916/SS2907 Social Policy and Environmental IssuesSS2209 European Social PolicySS3011 Youth Policy and PracticeSS3021 Sexuality and SocietySS3033 Social Policy and Social InterventionsSS3105 Social Policy Studies: The Position of MinoritiesSS4801 Multiculturalism, Gender and Social Policy